Adames v. INS

Opinion

USCA1 Opinion

July 17, 1995

                                 [NOT FOR PUBICATION]

                            UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                                FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT



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No. 94-2158 



                                HECTOR ROLANDO ADAMES,



                                     Petitioner,



                                          v.



                       IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,



                                     Respondent.


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                   ON PETITION FOR REVIEW OF THE DECISION AND ORDER

                         OF THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS


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                                        Before



                                Selya, Cyr and Boudin,

                                   Circuit Judges.
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            Randy Olen on brief for petitioner.
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            Frank  W.  Hunger,  Assistant  Attorney  General,  and  Ellen  Sue
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        Shapiro, Attorney, Office  of Immigration Litigation, Civil  Division,
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        United States Department of Justice, on brief for respondent.


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Per Curiam.   We have carefully reviewed the briefs
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            and the record.  We  see no basis to disturb  the immigration



            judge's denial of  a continuance or the  Board's dismissal of



            petitioner's appeal.   In moving for a  continuance one month



            after  he  had  entered an  appearance,  petitioner's counsel



            merely asserted  that he "suspect[ed] that  a post-conviction



            application would be based on the failure to give Immigration



            warnings."  He did  not explain the basis for  his suspicion.



            For  example, he did not indicate whether he had reviewed the



            state  court papers,  conferred with  trial counsel,  or even



            talked  with petitioner  to determine whether  petitioner had



            been aware of the possibility  of deportation when he entered



            his nolo  contendere plea.  We need not now decide under what



            circumstances, if  any, an  immigration judge should  grant a



            continuance in order to  allow a convicted alien to  pursue a



            collateral attack on his conviction.  We simply conclude that



            in view  of counsel's  meager showing, the  immigration judge



            did not abuse his discretion in denying a continuance in this



            case.



                 The petition  for judicial  review is  summarily denied.



            Loc. R. 27.1.